Drink everlasting love;
Soon we shall land on Canaan’s shore,
Soon we shall land on Canaan’s shore;
Soon we shall land on Canaan’s shore to live forevermore.
The text by John Leland is given more fully under ‘Faithful Soldier’. The tune reappears with unimportant changes as a negro spiritual in Slave Songs, No. 115. The first melodic sentence of the tune is almost identical with the opening of ‘The Winter it is Past’, Petrie, No. 439.
No. 205
[WARRENTON] or I AM BOUND FOR THE KINGDOM, GOS 275
Hexatonic, mode 3 A (I II III — V VI VII)
Whither goest thou, pilgrim stranger,
Passing thro’ this darksome vale?